A Bit of a Ramble
Well maybe a bit more of a ramble than usual :-)
Have had lots of different thoughts over the past couple of days but they seem to be so disjointed that trying to draw a theme through them would be ... well a complete ramble. So I'll just try on the one that I think spurred me to post this morning - the struggle between the hunger for the seen vs. the unseen. How do we, how do I replace my desire for the physical with a desire for the spiritual? Maybe that is even pushing it a bit. How do I even get to being able to elevate the spiritual over the physical, given that the physical is always there asserting itself by the space it takes up or the vacuum it leaves behind?
This continues a bit from the theme of my last post - wanting God for His own sake and not as a means to something else.
I'm not sure how this plays out in your walk with Him from one day to the next or even from one moment to the next but this morning, I think I am being reminded that "faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." (Hebrews 11:1)
There are times when this seems so far away though. When it seems like this faith is just not there and yet we so desperately would like it to be otherwise. We want to trust, we want to believe, we want to be found faithful to what we profess. We want to cry out - "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!" (Mark 9:24)
Paul's prayer for the church at Ephesus (Ephesian 3:14-21):
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Grace & peace,
Deji.